The Crucible Reflective Essay

In today’s day and age, we can see elements showed in The Crucible within our personal experiences and on a much larger scale such as current global events. I myself have seen such elements in my own personal experience growing up, and even now in current global events. Growing up in school, there were a few times where someone in my class would do something wrong, such as trash something in the bathroom or even steal something. When our principal found out, he would have the class stay for an hour or two extra after school. He would not let us leave until someone confessed about their actions. During these one or two hours, no one would speak. Either they did not know who did it, or they did know and did not want to say anything in fear of being labeled a snitch by the rest of the class.

On a much larger scale, we can see elements from The Crucible on the news. One of the biggest stories on the news for the past year or two has been the global conflict with ISIS. ISIS is known as that one radical Islamic group that is responsible for multiple terrorist attacks around the world at this point in time as well as the invasion of certain countries such as Syria, which has been the recent topic about them in the news. The people of ISIS encourage the murder of any non-believers to the point of committing mass genocide. How does this group relate to the events within The Crucible? As said before, the Puritans came to America to avoid religious persecution and as a result, they were committing religious persecution themselves within their own community through the Salem Witch